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The article considers the results of the research of self-injurious behaviour and correlations between self-esteem and self-injuries in informal youth subcultures.

The research is aimed to studying features of self-injurious behaviour in adolescence and youth. This purpose makes us analyse such characteristics as self-attitude, coping behaviour, cases of psychological traumatization, deviant socialization and self-injurious behavior. Three types of self-injurious behavior: a deviant, a prosocial and a personality-dysfunctional one are defined.

The article is devoted to the study of the specifics of sociopsychological characteristics of families of adolescents with different types of autoaggressive behavior. The study involved 1,977 people, aged 10–18 years. Methods were used to identify the risks of suicidal, self-harming behavior, use of substances, as well as a questionnaire to study the socio-psychological characteristics of adolescent families.